logline: Spearheaded by pigs, farm animals rise up against their mistreatment and establish their own government.
If you enjoy (or have enjoyed) reading Animal Farm you'll also enjoy Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis -- published by Coach House.
logline: Two Greek gods -- Hermes and Apollo -- gift fifteen dogs with human intelligence.
In Fifteen Dogs, Alexis studies society: its development, what it means to live on the fringe (as an outcast, as an immigrant), and the purpose of art (to reflect, to provoke).
Writing Fifteen Dogs won Andre Alexis the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2015 ScotiaBank Giller Prize
In his Quill and Quire magazine article (The Key to Success), Nick Patch reports that -- as of November 2016 -- Fifteen Dogs had sold 110,000 print copies and 20,000 ebooks. Also in the article, Alexis is quoted as saying: Fifteen Dogs ' "touched a lot of people and I'm happy." '
Fifteen Dogs is my Canada Reads pick -- the book all Canadians should read.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) radio program Canada Reads runs from March 27 to 30.
